TABLE 2.
Percentage of prevalent species or phylotypes on tongue dorsum
| Species or phylotype | % Clones from:
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| Healthy subjects (no. of clones analyzed)
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Halitosis subjects (no. of clones analyzed)
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| H1 (102) | H2 (51) | H3 (68) | H4 (65) | H5 (76) | M1 (50) | M2 (56) | M3 (46) | M4 (81) | M5 (78) | M6 (47) | |
| Atopobium parvulum | 3 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 51a | ||||||
| Cryptobacterium curtum | 19 | ||||||||||
| Dialister sp. clone BS095 | 4 | 8 | 2 | ||||||||
| Eubacterium sulci | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | |||||||
| Fusobacterium periodonticum | 5 | 24 | |||||||||
| Granulicatella adiacens | 8 | 21 | 5 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 4 | ||
| Neisseria flavescens | 4 | 7 | 24 | ||||||||
| Rothia mucilaginosa | 6 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 4 | |||||
| Streptococcus infantis | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 1 | ||
| Streptococcus parasanguis | 27 | 18 | 7 | 32 | 8 | 18 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 4 |
| Streptococcus pneumoniae | 1 | 10 | 3 | ||||||||
| Streptococcus salivarius | 41 | 24 | 26 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Streptococcus sp. clone BW009 | 4 | 1 | 19 | ||||||||
| Streptococcus strain HalT4-E3 | 1 | 2 | 24 | 8 | 6 | ||||||
| Veillonella parvula/V. dispar | 3 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 22 | 2 | 10 | 1 | |||
| No. of species detected | 21 | 22 | 18 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 29 | 15 | 26 | 28 | 12 |
| % of total detected | 85 | 60 | 76 | 76 | 69 | 68 | 20 | 71 | 68 | 59 | 88 |
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Values in boldface indicate that the species comprised at least 10% of the tongue microbiota.